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Rip Current Statement 3, NWS Miami, FL

February 22, 2012Palm Beach County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this rip current statement at Feb 22, 2012, 4:04 AM EST for Palm Beach County, Florida. It was in force for 15 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 22, 2012, 4:04 AM EST (09:04 UTC)
Expired: Feb 22, 2012, 7:00 PM EST
In force: 15 hr
Issued by: NWS Miami, FL

County Palm Beach County, FL

The radar

The Miami radar (KAMX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 00:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 93 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1072 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -63 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -35 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

119 
WHUS42 KMFL 220904
CFWMFL

COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
404 AM EST WED FEB 22 2012

FLZ168-230000-
/O.NEW.KMFL.RP.S.0003.120222T0904Z-120223T0000Z/
COASTAL PALM BEACH-
404 AM EST WED FEB 22 2012

...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING...

* TIMING: SOUTH SOUTHEAST WINDS COMBINED WITH WAVE ACTION AND A
  NORTHEAST SWELL OF 3 TO 4 FEET WILL RESULT IN A HIGH RISK OF RIP
  CURRENTS AT THE PALM BEACH COUNTY BEACHES THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING.

* IMPACTS: DANGEROUS RIP CURRENTS WILL REMAIN AN ONGOING THREAT AT
  THE PALM BEACHES THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING. SWIMMING IS NOT ADVISED.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

THERE IS A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS.

RIP CURRENTS ARE POWERFUL CHANNELS OF WATER FLOWING QUICKLY AWAY
FROM SHORE...WHICH OCCUR MOST OFTEN AT LOW SPOTS OR BREAKS IN THE
SANDBAR AND IN THE VICINITY OF STRUCTURES SUCH AS JETTIES AND
PIERS. HEED THE ADVICE OF LIFEGUARDS AND THE BEACH PATROL. PAY
ATTENTION TO FLAGS AND POSTED SIGNS.

IF YOU BECOME CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT...DO NOT PANIC. REMAIN
CALM AND BEGIN TO SWIM PARALLEL TO SHORE. ONCE YOU ARE AWAY FROM
THE FORCE OF THE RIP CURRENT...BEGIN TO SWIM BACK TO THE BEACH.
DO NOT ATTEMPT TO SWIM DIRECTLY AGAINST A RIP CURRENT. EVEN A
STRONG SWIMMER CAN BECOME EXHAUSTED QUICKLY.

&&

$$

PLEASE VISIT THE FOLLOWING WEBSITE TO SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON THE
NEW RIP CURRENT HAZARD...

HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/SURVEY/NWS-SURVEY.PHP?CODE=RCVTECCHM

The office that day

Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 22, 4:10 PM EST	Small Craft Advisory	MFL		12 hr

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.